Data used:

## [1] "../data/cleaned/prelim_singlereview.csv"

Summary

From the preliminary data:

Lots of studies with ‘unk’ spatial scale (this means that no plot nor site scales were reported by coders).
Lots of small scale studies, some large scale studies
Relatively few medium scale, and medium-large scale papers
Not that many papers cross the scale bins we’ve used

My takeaway (Grant): A fair amount of small scale studies reach up into the medium scale category, but hardly any large scale studies have smaller scale components. Way too many studies do not report (or we couldn’t find) the spatial scale at which they are operating…maybe a lot of these are simulations? - doesn’t look like it, see below

Spatial binning to fit scale figure

The end result of these numbers may just be displayed as n=X in the existing scale figure, but there are other potential ways to display these things, too.

Key for binning:

##   Scale_binned                scales
## 1        Small 25m,50m,100m,500m,1km
## 2       Medium     10km,100km,1000km
## 3        Large    100Mgm,100Gm,101Gm

Number of papers in each bin:

## # A tibble: 8 x 2
##   Scale_groups       count
##   <fct>              <int>
## 1 Small                 86
## 2 Small,Medium          23
## 3 Medium                18
## 4 Medium,Large           6
## 5 Large                 25
## 6 Small,Large            5
## 7 Small,Medium,Large     1
## 8 unk                   71

Unknown scale studies…

Unclear what explains why so many studies had unknown spatial scale…

Small scale studies…

And large scale studies

Just for those studies with a ‘Yes’ for Q8: Does the paper consider or compare multiple spatial scales?

##   Scale_binned                scales
## 1        Small 25m,50m,100m,500m,1km
## 2       Medium     10km,100km,1000km
## 3        Large    100Mgm,100Gm,101Gm

Number of papers in each bin:

## # A tibble: 8 x 2
##   Scale_groups       count
##   <fct>              <int>
## 1 Small                 15
## 2 Small,Medium           3
## 3 Medium                 4
## 4 Medium,Large           2
## 5 Large                 10
## 6 Small,Large            2
## 7 Small,Medium,Large     1
## 8 unk                    9

Now let’s look at the combination of study type, spatial scale, and temporal scale

These plots have some tough-to-look-at colors (for me at least), and we might need to think about how to break up the groups, but I think they’re helpful nonetheless.

Labels indicate total counts.

For each temporal scale, what is the spatial scale?

For each spatial scale, what is the temporal scale?

For each type of study (methods), what is the temporal scale?

Not sure how to group the studies with multiple types of methods here…

For each temporal scale, what is the type of study (methods)?